tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post5701588618844842137..comments2019-01-21T12:23:09.221-08:00Comments on Cassandra's Legacy: The Soft Belly of The Oil Industry: an Upcoming Seneca Collapse?Ugo Bardinoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-31776463747411652842017-11-27T12:25:53.153-08:002017-11-27T12:25:53.153-08:00Excellent list of the realities of EV. I know of m...Excellent list of the realities of EV. I know of many state agencies that put out press releases about how they are so pleased at the increase in EV cars and yet do not dig deep enough to see that most of those cars (and their charging stations) are run on electricity from power plants that includes fossil fuels in their mix. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579323406445400448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-90404066105357230072017-11-25T14:32:45.527-08:002017-11-25T14:32:45.527-08:00in the uk, we have been told petrol and diesel car...in the uk, we have been told petrol and diesel cars will be banned in 2040, and replaced by ecars. <br /><br />i suspect this date has been given because the oil companies (who make policy) know extraction will be finished by then anyway due to there being too little oil to pump.<br /><br />do not expect much of an ecar revolution before then. the oil has to be used up first!<br /><br />after 2040, cars will be run on coal.andy765gtrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17783443094712256026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-63038711221619602412017-11-24T12:01:02.041-08:002017-11-24T12:01:02.041-08:00Thank you Heck. Sic transit Tesla and Co.
Jean-Lu...Thank you Heck. Sic transit Tesla and Co.<br /><br />Jean-Luc JourdainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-72725361487103976482017-11-24T09:55:07.219-08:002017-11-24T09:55:07.219-08:00Thanks, lots of good info. Yet again we see why gr...Thanks, lots of good info. Yet again we see why green growth is looking more and more like a myth.Yvan Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810932887954689424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-42971690388304468912017-11-23T15:10:33.589-08:002017-11-23T15:10:33.589-08:00UB &gt; the electric transportation revolution is ...UB &gt; the electric transportation revolution is coming<br /><br />For the very few French-speaking members in the audience…<br /><br />&quot;L’automobile face à ses contraintes : énergie et métaux&quot;<br />https://tv.arts-et-metiers.fr/lautomobile-face-a-contraintes-energie-metaux-part-2/<br /><br />Musk notwithstanding, the electric car will _not_ save our bacon.Heck Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08853405950878881786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-71944426622564145862017-11-22T04:52:14.112-08:002017-11-22T04:52:14.112-08:00So when is the electric transportation revolution ...So when is the electric transportation revolution coming? I ride a bicycle, does that count?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-84559388189140148082017-11-21T04:50:06.163-08:002017-11-21T04:50:06.163-08:00Unfortunately, the shift to electric vehicles may ...Unfortunately, the shift to electric vehicles may not do much to solve the climate problem either. Manufacturing an EV can generate twice as much CO2 as a conventional car and using one can actually INCREASE the output of CO2 compared to a conventional vehicle if the country where it is being used is heavily dependent on coal for its energy production. Add to that the problems of disposal and their need for extracting cobalt from DRC, they are not the simple and easy solution that many believe.Graeme Maxtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03393634739464730763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-50047560727882431182017-11-21T04:44:54.648-08:002017-11-21T04:44:54.648-08:00the scrapped tramway system in the USA is an inter... the scrapped tramway system in the USA is an interesting example of our situation.<br /><br />it&#39;s important to recognise the timescales involved with that.<br /><br />When the trams were scrapped in the 50s, land was cheap, housing developments were spreading ever outwards, and everyone wanted cars and thought that individual transportation was the way of the future---which of course it was, but only for another 60 years or so.<br /><br />Scrapping trams increased demand for cars. That provided more jobs within the industrial system that provided the financial infrastructure to create the housing sprawl. It was a self generating system that was supposed to go on forever.<br /><br />Post oil we will be faced with the problem of people being stuck out in the middle of nowhere with no way of reaching food supplies. They are the people who voted for Trump on the promise of infinite BAU<br /><br />The disaster of scrapping the trams happened but at a far slower pace than we could even recognise as a disaster. But without oil, sustaining millions of people in outlying communities is going to be next to impossibleNorman Pagettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-64632218106050878612017-11-21T04:00:01.558-08:002017-11-21T04:00:01.558-08:00Bon je crois qu&#39;on a compris, après l&#39;âge ...Bon je crois qu&#39;on a compris, après l&#39;âge de la pierre l&#39;âge du bronze puis l&#39;âge du fer, puis l&#39;huile des baleines puis le pétrole etc... jusqu&#39;à la merveilleuse Tesla dans mon garage. Je remarque que de progrès en progrès nous saccageons de plus en plus la planète jusqu&#39;au moment où elle deviendra inhabitable. Sincèrement je pense que si nous nous engageons vers ce pari du tout électrique nous allons au désastre. Je vous invite à regarder les conférences de Jean-Marc Jancovici (il y en a plein sur youtube, ou alors allez sur son site) pour comprendre de façon chiffrée la galère que ça va être. Jancovici explique aussi très bien la décorrélation entre le prix du pétrole et le volume produit (si si). Philippe Bihouix est aussi une bonne lecture.<br />Petite réflexion annexe: si le prix du pétrole baisse parce que nous utilisons des véhicules électriques il sera rentable d&#39;utiliser ce pétrole pour produire de l&#39;électricité bon marché, je remarque au passage que le pétrole est un condensé de puissance contrairement aux autres sources prétendument non polluantes. Sinon qu&#39;est ce qui va produire l&#39;électricité? L&#39;éolien, le photovoltaïque, les centrales nucléaires, le charbon, le gaz? Avez-vous idée des investissements (financiers et en ressources) nécessaires? Il y a de quoi mettre notre planète à genoux et nous avec.<br />Concernant Jevons j&#39;avais compris ça: j&#39;achète une voiture qui consomme 4 litres au cent pour remplacer ma vieille voiture qui consommait 8 litres. 1er effet d&#39;aubaine: je roule plus et je consomme 6 litres au lieu de 4, deuxième effet d&#39;aubaine: il y a 2 litres sur le marché qui sont récupéré par un industriel qui va produire plus et moi je vais aller dans ses magasins pour y acheter les nouveaux produits, donc à l&#39;arrivée ma nouvelle voiture de 4 litres consomme 9 litres au lieu des 8 litres de l&#39;ancienne, et nous avons contribué à saccager la planète.<br />Sinon pour terminer je propose de placer une oscillation phugoïde au sommet de la courbe de Sénèque. https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,1611.1200.html il faut descendre jusqu&#39;au post de logicmanPatrick <br /><br />Merci pour cet échange passionnant <br />Jean-Luc JourdainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-18751274181725601612017-11-21T03:13:45.623-08:002017-11-21T03:13:45.623-08:00Of course, it is unlikely that the collapse of the...Of course, it is unlikely that the collapse of the oil industry will have no consequences on other sectors of the system. If nothing else, it will take with it the gas industry, which is part of the same industry, uses the same kind of equipment, employs the same kind of personnel, etc. And the collapse of a huge segment of the productive system will likely create ripples in every sector. <br /><br />Yet, I think one could also make the case that the disappearance of the oil industry doesn&#39;t necessarily mean the end of the world as we know it. I have in mind &quot;Who Framed Roger Rabbit?&quot; One of the subplots of the movie was that the car industry conspired to destroy the tramway industry. It is probably true, at least in part. It happened. But the collapse of the tramway industry didn&#39;t generate disasters; trams were simply scrapped and that was it. Now, admittedly, we are discussing of quite different sizes but, in principle, a managed Seneca collapse can occur in a relatively smooth manner. <br /><br />Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-26549196279330121502017-11-21T02:06:20.236-08:002017-11-21T02:06:20.236-08:00Allez-y, les mecs. Ce n&#39;est pas exactement com...Allez-y, les mecs. Ce n&#39;est pas exactement comme ça. Jevons disait simplement qu&#39;une augmentation de l&#39;efficacité d&#39;une technologie n&#39;amène pas à une baisse de la demande. Si on l&#39;applique au voitures, bon, on peut dire que si on achète une voiture qui consomme moins d&#39;essence on fera plus de kilomètres et ça revient à la même chose. C&#39;est à dire, la demande d&#39;essence ne change pas. Oui, mais ici c&#39;est différent: on peut faire un million de kilomètres avec une voiture électrique, mais la demande d&#39;essence remains zero. C&#39;est une chose totalement differente. <br /><br />Certainement on peut dire, &quot;Bon, mais le pétrole pas utilisé pour produire des carburant pourra être utilisé pour produire de l&#39;électricité&quot;. Mais non; pas possible. L&#39;électricité produite avec le pétrole c&#39;est hors marché; trop chère. Vraiment, l&#39;industrie pétrolière va se retrouver sans un marché pour ses produits. <br /><br />C&#39;est comme l&#39;industrie des tramways quand ils ont été remplacés par les voitures privées (souvenez vous du film &quot;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&quot;?). On a pas utilisé les vieux trams pour autres choses quand ils sont devenus obsolètes. On les a simplement jetté. Et ça c&#39;est le destin de l&#39;industrie du pétrole.Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-32160560302225716192017-11-21T01:39:27.363-08:002017-11-21T01:39:27.363-08:00the Divest from Oil and Gas movement is a real thr...the Divest from Oil and Gas movement is a real threat to Big Oil as an industry in the same way the Divest from South Africa movement was a threat to South African apartheid — it hits them where the money sits, in the wallet and not in the reputation...<br />for more please read<br /><br />https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/gauis-publius-surprise-move-norways-1-trillion-sovereign-wealth-fund-may-divest-fossil-fuels.html<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-74283949821469083682017-11-20T19:27:20.807-08:002017-11-20T19:27:20.807-08:00Well, if the IEA is right we get to eat for an ext...Well, if the IEA is right we get to eat for an extra decade before we begin to slow cook. That is a good thing, right?<br /><br />I would like to add (and I&#39;m sure everyone here knows) that the already large oil industry is expanding at a frantic pace right now. &quot;Energy sprawl&quot; I think some are calling it. In any case, it is sucking massive amounts of capital and labour out of the rest of the economy at an exponential growth rate. If it does die, whatever the reason, the bigger it is the more likely it will possibly take something else down with.Yvan Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810932887954689424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-54277965264820771092017-11-20T19:15:10.488-08:002017-11-20T19:15:10.488-08:00Oui, mais si on réduit la demande (par l&#39;auto ...Oui, mais si on réduit la demande (par l&#39;auto électrique) on libère une partie de la production du pétrole, et ça réduit son prix, non? En même temps les véhicules à moteurs à combustion deviennent progressivement plus efficaces, comme les moteurs à vapeur de Watt versus ceux de Newcomen. Donc une deuxième sorte de réduction de prix?<br /><br />Si je comprends bien et pour simplifier un peu trop, qui dominera Jevons ou Hubbert?Yvan Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810932887954689424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-2409051012858554922017-11-20T15:17:53.354-08:002017-11-20T15:17:53.354-08:00it&#39;s not the journey that&#39;s the problem, i...it&#39;s not the journey that&#39;s the problem, it&#39;s the purpose of the journey<br /><br />without employment, as created by fuelburning, there will be no point in making journeys anywhere.<br /><br />And we have no other means of creating employment other than by burning fuel.Norman Pagettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-71609042776911225042017-11-20T14:45:07.354-08:002017-11-20T14:45:07.354-08:00Bonjour Ugo, il me semble avoir bien lu Wikipedia ...Bonjour Ugo, il me semble avoir bien lu Wikipedia ;) . Si on rend le pétrole disponible pour autre chose que le transport alors il sera récupéré pour d&#39;autres utilisations, c&#39;est un effet d&#39;aubaine. Je me réfère aussi à Dennis Meadows qui disait que tout progrès technologique en vu de retarder l&#39;inévitable effondrement ne ferait que nous précipiter encore plus rapidement dans l&#39;effondrement. A moins que nous ne menions deux révolutions majeures dans nos petites cervelles de primates: la première c&#39;est la révolution culturelle qui voudrait que nous cessions enfin de vouloir toujours plus et que nous nous contentions enfin de ce que nous avons. La deuxième révolution est éthique, c&#39;est à dire que nous trouvions la force morale de partager ce que nous possédons avec ceux qui n&#39;ont rien. Si ces deux révolutions sont faites, alors le progrès technique reprend son sens et peut nous aider dans les épreuves à venir. Bon inutile de dire qu&#39;il s&#39;agit là d&#39;une construction intellectuelle qui n&#39;a rien à voir avec la réalité. Notre avidité nous empêchera de faire ces deux révolutions, nous sommes donc condamnés quoique puissent espérer les cornucopiens. Cordialement,<br />Jean-Luc JourdainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-61284842274537998532017-11-20T10:45:43.376-08:002017-11-20T10:45:43.376-08:00Pas exactement comme ca. Jevons a souvent raison, ...Pas exactement comme ca. Jevons a souvent raison, mais ici on ne peut pas appliquer sa theorie. On ne parle pas d&#39;une augmentation de la disponibilité d&#39;énergie. C&#39;est une transition; une autre chose. Lisez Wikipedia!Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-36686980159005271252017-11-20T10:02:37.226-08:002017-11-20T10:02:37.226-08:00Oui, foodnstuff a reason, ça c&#39;est la subverti...Oui, foodnstuff a reason, ça c&#39;est la subvertion ultime. Et j&#39;avais pas pensé a Jevons... Wait I guess I could write in English! Yes Foodnstuff is right, that is the ultimate subversion. I hadn&#39;t thought of Jevons, he is a bit of a pest sometimes.Yvan Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810932887954689424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-55165260968922837902017-11-20T08:25:47.786-08:002017-11-20T08:25:47.786-08:00Bonjour, je suis d&#39;accord avec foodnstuf, si j...Bonjour, je suis d&#39;accord avec foodnstuf, si j&#39;achète une voiture électrique le pétrole économisé sera utilisé pour produire l&#39;électricité nécessaire au bon fonctionnement de ma voiture avec des pertes en plus. Je rajouterai que notre ami Ugo Bardi méconnaît gravement la loi de Jevons, plus on cherchera à réduire notre consommation de pétrole et plus on va en consommer. Allez sur wikipedia et vérifiez, Jevons ne s&#39;est pas trompé. Tant qu&#39;on ne tiendra pas compte de la loi de Jevons toute réflexion sera faussée, prière aussi de voir ce que Dennis Meadows a dit sur ce sujet, si vous ne voyez pas, je vous préciserai la pensée de Dennis dans un post à venir. Désolé Ugo ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-47359442655079192032017-11-20T08:25:28.806-08:002017-11-20T08:25:28.806-08:00All things being equal I do believe that a transit...All things being equal I do believe that a transition to EV transportation could happen. It would just like all other transitions though in that it will take a generation or so and would not mean the end of FF use or even much of a decline. In order for the transition that you posit to occur and to displace FF use the world economy would have to stand still or even decline which would cause so much chaos that EVs would not matter.<br /><br />I too wish we could simply proclaim something to be true and just move on but reality keeps rearing its pretty head.Jef Jeltenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04054086221209209274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-54383205908105494272017-11-20T07:06:25.323-08:002017-11-20T07:06:25.323-08:00Ugo
You will need to replace fossil fuel with &#39...Ugo<br />You will need to replace fossil fuel with &#39;renewable&#39; fuel to generate the electricity in order to benefit the climate. (Batteries round-trip waste 30% of input energy; fossil fuel power generation wastes around 50% or more of input energy; the more energy efficient electric motor - c.f. ICE - cannot correct for those &#39;wastes&#39;.) <br /><br />The giant expansion of the electricity industry seems highly problematical to me. Yvan Roy has a point: you could propagate a number of simultaneous Seneca cliffs.<br /><br />Meanwhile Tom Whipple over at Peak Oil Review reports a most extraordinary projection. Quote: <i>Last week the IEA shocked the oil markets when its annual World Energy Outlook predicted that US shale would dominate the oil and gas markets over the next decade, rising to “a level 50 percent higher than any other country has ever managed.” With a “remarkable ability to unlock new resources cost-effectively,” US shale resources will add millions of barrels of new oil supply by 2025 and contribute more than 80 percent of the growth in world oil production during the next seven years. US shale oil production, which includes crude, condensates, and natural gas liquids is now forecast by the IEA to increase to 13 million b/d by 2025, out of total US output of 16.9 million b/d – roughly 7 million b/d day higher than current US production.</i><br /><br />What happens after that, IEA presumably does not say.<br /><br />best <br />Phil<br /><br />Phil Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16992266289232459952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-87517025293039011792017-11-19T17:40:45.791-08:002017-11-19T17:40:45.791-08:00But electric vehicles need resources and energy to...But electric vehicles need resources and energy to manufacture, and those resources and energy are being delivered by oil. Can they be delivered without oil?<br /><br />Elon Musk is not subversive; he&#39;s out to make a profit before people realise that electric cars are not going to be part of the long-term future.<br /><br />&quot;Growing your own food is a subversive act&quot; (Bill Mollison of permaculture fame).<br /><br />Now THAT really is subversive!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-22886561883885858172017-11-19T16:18:54.615-08:002017-11-19T16:18:54.615-08:00This article looks at the demise of the oil indust...This article looks at the demise of the oil industry, and its gasoline derivatives as if it can be taken in isolation, and leave the rest of our living system unscathed.<br /><br />This seems very odd---it is going to happen of course, but not in the sense that, sans gasoline, we are all going to enter some kind of utopia where we will be better off, fitter, happier etc etc.<br /><br />without the products of the oilwells, our infrastructure falls apart---literally. Our lives will become an unpleasant struggle for survival. (made worse by a denial that there is anything wrong)<br /><br />I&#39;ve expanded on that here, for what it&#39;s worth:<br />https://extranewsfeed.com/from-oilslick-to-tyranny-e35d04b31fc3<br /><br />it is the economy of scale (which includes the market for gasoline) that gives us our oil supported environment. There is nothing in our mode of existence that does not contain within it a component of oil coal or gas. Anyone doubting that should examine any object with reach, and check its origins.<br />Then check the contents of their fridge to add a real frightener<br /><br />There is no substitute for the manufacture of those objects, no substitute for the employment they provide.<br />Remove oil and there will be no purpose for journeys. So there&#39;s your transport problem solved.<br /><br />Humankind has pulled off the neat trick of turning oil into food. Remove the mass market for transport gasoline and the cost of (for example) tractor fuels will be so high as to be unusable. <br />A good thing? <br />Apparently it is---until those who advocate this discover that their food supplies have been cut off because farms cant produce food or transport it.<br /><br />And that we, as consumers, live too far from our food sources to have any cost effective means of getting hold of it<br /><br />And no--there are no alternatives. Electricity cannot drive farms, deliver food or stock supermarkets on the scale that 7.5bn people need it. <br />EVs, as of this moment, comprise I believe 0.01% of global transport. Scaling up would be colossal even if it were possible within the timeframe we have left. <br />So much for the elimination of the IC engine.<br /><br />Windfarms and solar farms are promoted as providing enough energy to power xx000s of homes---all well and good.<br /><br />nobody dares to point out that the environment in which those homes sit consumes fifty times as much power. Which confirms the nonsense of our future &quot;wind powered utopia&quot;.<br /><br />This is why, without oil we have a very bleak futureNorman Pagetthttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D0ADPFYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-25501171529578912382017-11-19T10:37:01.971-08:002017-11-19T10:37:01.971-08:00Very good. Would the economy around the collapsing...Very good. Would the economy around the collapsing oil industry heal fast enough to prevent a nasty propagation? I&#39;m still wondering how much diesel we can replace with batteries, and how fast.Yvan Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810932887954689424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342811133328800388.post-17579801209241800112017-11-19T09:22:40.335-08:002017-11-19T09:22:40.335-08:00What people can afford becomes a barrier on the co...What people can afford becomes a barrier on the complexity of transport. An electric buggy based on bike technologies, but build on a large scale could be so affordable most of us poor folk could not pass it up. I doubt the laws would ever change to allow such a thing.Dennis Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02036092622549367667noreply@blogger.com